False Virus Warning

Users who have Trend Micro antivirus should disable temporary the Real Time protection before downloading Bersoft Image Measurement and only re-enable it after the software is installed.

Like most antivirus, Trend Micro uses heuristic techniques to find virus (heuristics are a speculative formulation serving as a guide in the investigation or solution of a problem).

Unfortunately heuristic scanners sometimes blame innocent programs for being contaminated by a virus. This is called a "false positive" or "False Alarm".

Bersoft Image Measurement is protected against inverse engineering with encryptation and compression, it seems that such protection, which makes the file harder to analyze for the antivirus, causes some versions of Trend Micro to mark it as suspicious.

Although heuristic analysis is capable of detecting many previously-unknown viruses and new variants of current viruses, the effectiveness is fairly low regarding accuracy and the number of false negatives and false positives is high.

You may send the file to a virus scanning service, like virustotal.com, or a similar one, to verify that most antivirus mark it as safe, and the few antivirus programs (only 4 from a total of 39 antivirus) mark it as suspicious but not infected.

One company that is most uncooperative with software developers is Trend Micro. Most antivirus has a way to report false positives to allow them correcting the virus detection function and so correct them, but Trend Micro has no way to report false virus warning (at least to the date).

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